“Cows... weren’t like people, with feelings of lonesomeness and worrying about what might happen next. That was just people, wasn’t it? Sure, you could scare a cow, but wouldn’t they get over it as soon as you let them be? They didn’t stand around fretting about the next scare and the next and the next.”

“Cows... weren’t like people, with feelings of lonesomeness and worrying about what might happen next. That was just people, wasn’t it? Sure, you could scare a cow, but wouldn’t they get over it as soon as you let them be? They didn’t stand around fretting about the next scare and the next and the next.”

— Katherine Paterson